Classic site The Kitten Covers goes for broke with Meowderhead
The Kitten Covers is basically exactly what it sounds like: a Tumblr that replaces the people on album covers with adorable kittens.
Unfortunately, the site, which kind of peaked in 2012, doesn’t get updated a lot these days. But earlier this week, the site did bless us with a new gem in the form of a kittenified version of Motörhead’s Ace Of Spades. Or as they call it, Meowerhead’s Ace of Spayeds.
Lemmy has never looked more adorable.
“A non-stop action film” can actually be one of the most boring things you’ll ever see. So why is it not boring here? Well, first notice how little of the action is trying to be “cool’ or detached. There is no sense that the audience is observing the situation as an outsider. No, the truth is that the entirety of Mad Max: Fury Road is trying to ground every shot of every subject in what they are feeling at that moment. Every punch is not only meant to have impact, but every feeling and emotion does too. It all adds to the propulsive quality of the film and makes the film feel involving from start to finish.
All because the cinematography is trying to include you.
To wit, notice the way you feel and how you align yourself while watching every moment of this scene, the way you are ping-ponged not just cinematically but emotionally…
It doesn’t matter that you don’t exactly know who to “root” for. Eventually you are going to be rooting for all of them. The point of this scene is to actually to make you empathize with whoever is getting hit at that moment.
So the drama comes from the fact that you’re actually rooting for no one to get hurt, but everyone keeps coming close to killing the other, putting everyone in a dangerous situation. It’s a brilliant way to go about that scene and speaks not just to the action chops of George Miller, but also shows how clearly he understands character motivation and the holistic story goals of his movie.
There was this book I read a long time ago, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes—not the movie—where the character, it didn’t occur to her that she wasn’t smart or that things wouldn’t work out or that men wouldn’t all do what she wanted. And she had a sort of intelligence that made her be able to get everything that she needed in a way that I didn’t understand. Like, if you’re meeting with a guy and you want him to like you, that you’d have flowers delivered to yourself. Who would think of that? I would never in a million years. There are tricks that you play that work, and that amazed me, that kind of intelligence. I was also thinking about Ed Wood and the idea that he went out and did all this creative stuff, and he stunk, but it didn’t occur to him that it wasn’t good, because he was enjoying it so much. And who says that he’s wrong and other people are right? We all live in our own heads, and if I go out and go, “Gee, I look great today,” who’s to say I don’t? I have the choice. I can see things one way or another.
(Source: criterion.com, via oldfilmsflicker)
BLUE VELVET tomorrow (Friday 5/13) … “Life is very, very confusing, and so films should be allowed to be, too” – David Lynch #movies #Detroit #48201 (at Cinema Detroit)
(via oldfilmsflicker)
